Reviews of Genesis music releases and background info
The Abacab tour of 1981 and 1982 was documented as another double live album. Three Sides Live actually does contain only three LP sides of live material
In the early 90s Genesis reached the commercial peak of their career. We Can’t Dance produced no less than six singles. It also turned out to be the last one with Phil Collins.
The 1983-1998 boxset covers the band’s most successful period plus the post-Collins album Calling All Stations. Unfortunately not all the bonus tracks were included from this period. Find out why.
September 2007 saw the re-release of the Genesis back catalogue in general and Genesis, also known as Shapes or the Mama album in a SACD-hybrid/DVD double disc set. All about the content and the music can be found here.
The self-titled album from 1983 was the record that made Genesis a real stadium band. They moved further away from progressive pieces without abandoning them totally. As a result of this messieurs Banks, Rutherford and Collins seemed to get ever better at writing shorter pieces.
Information about the content and the bonus material of the Gabriel-era Genesis SACD/DVD boxset can be found here.
Genesis’ (live) comeback in North America prompted a first: A CD release in Starbucks’s Greatest Hits series. It is called 14 From Our Past and contains 14 songs from Genesis studio albums released between 1970-1997. Bernd Zindler has taken a closer look.
Soon after the end of their North American tour Genesis released the live double album Live Over Europe. We have listened closely for you.
A prog album camouflaged as pop – that is one of the friendlier descriptions of a Genesis album fans’ opinions are very divided about. In 2007 a new version of the mega-seller of the 80s came out on SACD/DVD…
Genesis’ album Calling All Stations came out in late September 2007 as part of the re-release of the Genesis back catalogue in SACD-hybrid / DVD double disc. All about the content and the music in this report.
